Month: April 2015

The numbers on the central planning dream for housing are in and they’re bleak. No percent increase in homeownership from 20 years ago despite vast investment. What this means for investors.

Effective central planning has been a dream of dictators and elected governments alike for centuries. It failed miserably for the Soviet Union and everywhere else.

Central planning via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at a huge tax and inflation cost to Americans, was designed to achieve a specific homeownership rate but has failed. A Washington Post article showed data from the last two decades of massive investment has ultimately increased housing costs. Fannie Mae’s stated goal is to increase home ownership rates by providing greater access to mortgage financing. Simple economics would tell us that this will increase demand and put upward pressure on real estate prices. Increasing housing prices makes housing less, not more, accessible to people.

The big investment started 20 years ago in 1994. Today, home ownership is 63.9%, the exact same rate as in 1994. Home ownership is only up 1% from 50 years ago.

Jason Hartman comments, “Hopefully readers can see that big government, special interest groups and central planners have only made things worse. It’s no surprise that the figure has retraced its statistical steps since the housing market began to tank in 2007. I have long said that I believe the home ownership rate should decline. My sense tells me that the home ownership rate should be somewhere around 50-55%.”

Hartman continues, “It was never really the case that the quality of our democracy hinged on a particular rate of home ownership, as long as people are generally free to own their own homes, of course. Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are all strong democracies with lower rates of home ownership than the United States, according to data compiled by San Diego State University economist Michael Lea.”

There’s no free lunch in nature or in life. On episode 473 of Hartman’s show his guest David Porter talks about ‘the free lunch metric’ and how it applies to real estate investing.

Unintended consequences often occur during or after Government programs that attempt to shift demand in free markets. The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), colloquially known as “cash for clunkers“, created a scarcity of used cars. This drove used car prices up so many people in the market for a used car were locked out because they couldn’t afford it.

The unintended consequence of the central planning of the housing market over the last 20 years and the crash of 2007, was many homeowners being displaced due to foreclosure. This has been a boon for investors. There are more good properties producing excellent return on investment as well as a huge volume of people seeking rentals.

Hartman says, “Why does this situation matter to investors? Because one of the talks we had two or three years ago at my Meet the Masters event was titled, ‘Six Years, Six Million New Renters.’ And, by the way, we’re on track! It’s looking like that’s going to happen because every 1% in drop in the home ownership rate equates to approximately one million new renters. That’s really good news for investors.”

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April 30, 2015 – British – Recently, a famous British oil painting museum London Dulwich gallery purchased one piece of high imitation canvas printing from chinacanvasprints.com to let the visitor find the real one and the imitated one. This should be very interesting news. Now, this press release will tell you the details about this news.

“We have not purchased the ordinary canvas printing but highly processed by newly canvas printing dropship technology and the skillful hand pastiche.” Said by the London Dulwich gallery’s director Xavier Bradley,” the faked one has very high quality and it make us become very excited. However, if the canvas prints have been putted together with the real one, the difference will be very obvious.”

As for which one is the high imitation canvas prints, the gallery will be kept strictly confidential and let everybody find the fault. The idea was first proposed by the British conceptual artist Doug Fishburn. He said that Chinese’s oil painting reproduction industry is very huge and completely. Customers can develop their own size and the ordering price is also very cheap.

As the introduction by Fishburn, he finally determined to select the famous China canvas prints supplier chinacanvasprints.com after carefully checking, communication and exploring. This artist was very satisfied with the final product. Fishbourne considered that putting an imitation oil painting from the East into the West Museum of Art should be one kind of very interesting activities. He hopes to stimulate the discussion about the differences between the fake and authentic artwork.

Gallery director Bradley also revealed this Chinese canvas painting company which website is www.chinacanvasprints.com. This supplier has more than 150 resident artist and the high tech printing equipments. They can provide a variety of styles of oil painting and promised 100% of the quality of their products. Website also revealed that they accept the payment methods such as PayPal, Visa Card and Western Union.

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Healing Hands Physical Therapy Services Inc. is volunteering for the 2nd year in a row with the March of Dimes March for Babies event this year. The Staff of Healing Hands Physical Therapy Services, Inc. and other recruited physical and massage therapists will provide back massages to the walkers of the event at the end of the route. This event will be in Washington D.C. located at Nationals Park. The walk starts at 9:00 am with registration on-site beginning at 8:00 am.

The March for Babies event collects funds to support research and fund families of premature babies. The goal of the support is to help women have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies. This national event has participants from all walks of life including companies, families, and students. While raising funds to help decrease the number of premature babies, this event also helps educate the public of the risks of premature birth. This year there are more than 200 communities running March for Babies events.

For more information about or to register for the March for Babies event, please visit http://bit.ly/1bR85BO

The March of Dimes has spent more than 76 years focused on their goal of trying to prevent premature births and other health related issues in infants. From funding research to funding local support programs, the March of Dimes keeps expanding to offer needed services in communities across the country.

Marva Marsh, PT, owner of Healing Hands Physical Therapy Inc. says, “We are excited to be participating in this event once again. It’s great to get out in the community and provide a small service to individuals who are willing to give their time to such a great organization like the March of Dimes.”

Healing Hands Physical Therapy Inc. is a comprehensive physical therapy service facility that provides therapeutic services to restore full physical function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities to people who suffer from injuries or painful diseases. They are located at 3200 12th Street, NE Washington, DC.

Randy Blankstein, President of national net lease advisory firm The Boulder Group, will be the conference co-chair of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Triple Net Investor Strategies Conferencein New York on June 16th, 2015. Additionally, he will be moderator for the Exit Strategies panel that will be a part of the conference.

The conference description is as follows: Triple Net Investor Strategies is designed to provide insights into strategies, opportunities, trends and risk management for the investor community in a forum that connects these investors with owners, operators, developers and other key players in an interactive environment.

About Randy Blankstein

Randy Blankstein is the founder and President of The Boulder Group a boutique investment real estate services company that specializes in single tenant net leased properties. Mr. Blankstein is recognized nationally as a leader in the net lease market, and has personally arranged in excess of $2.1 billion in net lease related acquisitions and dispositions in his 24 year real estate career.

Randy received honorable mention for the 2014 Net Lease Executive of the Year by Commercial Property Executive Magazine.

About The Boulder Group

The Boulder Group is a boutique investment real estate service firm specializing in single tenant net lease properties. The firm provides a full range of brokerage, advisory, and financing services nationwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes high net worth individuals, developers, REITs, partnerships and institutional investment funds. Founded in 1997, the firm has arranged the acquisition and disposition of over $2.1 billion of single tenant net lease real estate transactions. In 2010-2014, the firm was ranked in the top 10 companies in the nation for single tenant retail transactions by Real Capital Analytics. The Boulder Group is headquartered in suburban Chicago.

Altia GUI Development Software Offers Enhanced Support of Animated 3D Content for Production Embedded Displays

Colorado Springs, CO – April 30, 2015 – Altia, Incorporated announces a major step forward in its GUI innovation capabilities with the new 3D Scene Object. For companies developing embedded GUIs for automotive, medical, consumer and industrial applications, this offers a tremendous benefit – the capability to integrate beautiful and informative genuine 3D content into their displays. This enhanced feature gives Altia users the capability to take their embedded user experience to the next dimension, further differentiating their products in a competitive, UI-driven market.

The engineering team at Altia has test driven this new capability with exciting success. In one example, the team was able to demonstrate a 3D model with very impressive results – 14,000 triangles, six meshes and seven materials, including diffuse and reflection maps. This demo, which included animated camera, point light source as well as 2D graphics seamlessly interwoven with 3D content, ran at over 60 fps on embedded hardware.

The new Altia 3D Scene Object easily integrates content created in popular tools like Autodesk Maya®. It supports features including different light types, surface materials, and timeline animations. Textures are supported for diffuse, normal and reflection maps. These features allow for realistic 3D effects like shiny metal, rubbery tire treads and transparent glass.

With the Altia Design 3D Scene Object, GUI developers quickly gain incredible control over how they animate the three dimensional content in their GUI. A single timeline sequence of multiple animations can be split into discrete channels of animation which can be independently controlled. This means that developers can run a piece of the animation – like flutter the passenger door on a 3D car or bend an arm on a 3D patient view – without running the entire 3D animation of that object. The 3D Scene Object converts what would normally be movie playback into event-driven GUI animation since animations can be driven by real-time data or user interaction.

Altia’s user interface development tools are used by companies across the world to develop colorful and custom user interfaces for their products. With Altia Design, the GUI editor and centerpiece of Altia’s tool chain, users create custom graphics from scratch or use assets from tools like Adobe Photoshop to draw their GUIs, create animation, define behavior and optimize user experience. Once complete, Altia DeepScreen generates pure C source code for the Altia design model that can be deployed onto a variety of low- to high-powered processors from industry-leading silicon providers like Freescale, Renesas, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and more.

Altia, Inc. is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Chrysler, Smiths Medical, Ford, NordicTrack, Fiat, Medtronic, Rolls-Royce, Lockheed Martin and hundreds of other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or contact Altia’s corporate headquarters at +1 719-598-4299.

It’s the solution to food security and also a space-saver, taking up only 200 square meters and you can have one in your neighborhood.

Dr. Frans Swanepoel has created a unique way to provide healthy, organic food to people who need it, regardless of where they live.

It’s his Micro Mobile Urban Organic Farm, a 200 square-meter sustainable greenhouse made of unique plastic panels and metal supports. The greenhouse usesmulti-layered horizontal shelves to make the best use of space and can hold more than 5,000 plants. Fish farm tanks produce three tons of fish per year and the chicken coop holds 850 chickens.

A hydroponic tubular system provides irrigation and the system re-uses up to 80 percent of the water. A high-tech computer system monitors the greenhouse, which operates year-round in any kind of weather or terrain and not season bound.

In addition, the panels and framework can be shipped anywhere in the world and quickly assembled. It’s the ideal solution for food problems in many areas of the world.

“Poor quality of food can lead to disease and other health problems,” says Dr. Swanepoel, the founder and CEO of Grow Organic Plus, which has developed the Micro Mobile Urban Organic Farm. “This system takes up very little space and can be set up quickly and easily at scenes of natural disasters or in terrain not suitable for farming.”

Plus the food is totally organic, with no chemicals, pesticides or hormones.

“We now have a perfect working model,” Dr. Swanepoel says. “It’s time to get our product out into the market.” To make a difference in 12 000 000 peoples life’s that are going hungry to bed tonight, he is raising $2 million of outside funding for materials, manufacturing, computer software and marketing. In order to generate this capital, he has launched an Indiegogo campaign, which can be viewed at www.indiegogo.com/projects/micro-mobile-urban-organic-farm

The Indiegogo page includes a video that demonstrates how the greenhouse works.

Donations of any amount are welcome. Backers who contribute $100 will receive a Grow Organic Plus golf cap. Backers whom sign-up for $100 per month will become co-owner of all the farms that he puts up with the money raised from this campaign.

Dr. Swanepoel is hoping people around the world will support this project since it has the potential to make such a big impact on world hunger and global health.

”People are suffering because they don’t have access to healthy food,” he says. “This could dramatically increase the quality of nutrition in an impoverished country. Not only that, but the Micro Mobile Urban Organic Farm can provide jobs and business opportunities.

“We all talk about the frightening statistics of people dying of hunger every day, but what are we doing about it? We can be the legacy that creates hope for so many people.”

AsianDate is all revved up for the Gumball 3000 Rally 2015, which hits the road on May 23rd.

Leading international online dating service AsianDate has entered the hectic last stages of preparation for the famed Gumball 3000 Rally. With under a month remaining until the lights go green, AsianDate is putting the final touches to plans for the exciting international 3000-mile adventure from Stockholm to Las Vegas. AsianDate, who is making its debut in this year’s rally, expects everything to move smoothly once the rally gets underway in Stockholm on May 23rd.

AsianDate has chosen two beautiful lady members, both enthusiastic drivers, to take the wheel for this prestigious rally, which will also see a slew of famous names among the list of participants. AsianDate will make its presence felt in the rally in a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, a car known for its ability to deliver a powerful performance. The Camaro Z/28 has formidable passion with 425 horsepower, a stylish interior and shiny red exterior finish. The car also has a lowered stance, dual black hood and trunk stripes that give it a truly sporty look. And the car will deliver a real snarl due to QTP electric cutouts that have been opened up.

AsianDate has numbered the car 88 to represent the luck associated with the number eight in Chinese culture. The double eight means that the luck factor will be doubled for AsianDate ladies when they hit the road in this car. AsianDate is participating this year with their sister website AnastasiaDate.

Gumball 3000 is all about adventure and fun so AsianDate’s beautiful women and hot cars are sure to make a great match. It was only apt that AsianDate should become part of this iconic annual fest, which has a crazy fan following across the globe. In its own way, Gumball Rally represents the ‘Love Knows No Boundaries’ motto that AsianDate stands for. The Rally travels across various countries and geographical boundaries, and connects people of diverse cultures and languages. Gumball 3000 will also feature a host of other popular names such as last year’s winner deadmau5 and first timer Tommy Lee of the rock band Motley Crue.

This year’s Gumball 3000 Rally will kick off on May 23rd in Stockholm and pass through Oslo, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam in Europe. The cars and participants will then fly across the Atlantic Ocean on May 27th to set the tracks on fire in the U.S. The second leg of the rally will start in Reno and continue through San Francisco and Los Angeles before crossing the finish line in Las Vegas on May 30th.

About Gumball 3000

Gumball 3000 was created in 1999 by ex-racing driver, designer and British entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper; and was born from Cooper’s vision to combine cars, music, fashion and entertainment to create a pop culture lifestyle brand of the future. Cooper derived the word ‘Gumball’ from New York artist Andy Warhol after he used it to describe how the public chew up and spit out popular culture like chewing gum; and ‘3000’ as a nod to Cooper’s fascination with the future, particularly at a time when the world was about to enter the 21st Century. Cooper decided to launch his lifestyle brand concept by inviting 50 of his influential and celebrity friends to join him on a road-trip around Europe to experience an adrenaline fuelled-adventure, driving incredible cars and hosting glamorous parties each evening. This road-trip and its now legendary parties attended by the likes of Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and Johnny Knoxville, was the first ‘Gumball 3000 Rally’ and rapidly caught the attention of the press and public alike, achieving mainstream media coverage across celebrity, fashion and automotive publications, gracing the covers of GQ, Esquire, FHM, CAR and The Financial Times.

About AsianDate:

AsianDate is part of the AnastasiaDate family, founded in 1993, which offers premium international dating to facilitate exciting and romantic companionship online with beautiful and interesting women from all over the world. The Anastasia family includes AsianDate.com, AnastasiaDate.com, AmoLatina.com, and AfricaBeauties.com, which bring together over 4 million international users and more than 150 million online visitors annually. Additionally, over 2.5 million conversations are exchanged onsite daily. Anastasia is committed to member safety, customer satisfaction, and the ongoing pursuit of innovation. With offices in Russia, the U.S., China and the Philippines, Anastasia makes it possible for a worldwide clientele to communicate across a variety of top-notch multimedia platforms, including video chat.

AnastasiaDate brings great interest to social media community with new videos including We Say Privet and Gumball 3000 previews.

AnastasiaDate, the international dating service popular with single men and women across the globe, has released a new series of exciting videos which have become a big hit on top social media platforms. The newest videos show visitors the beautiful, happy and positive world of Slavic ladies. The video content has also been given a boost by AnastasiaDate’s preparations for the daring Gumball 3000 Rally that hits the road from Stockholm to Las Vegas on May 23rd.

AnastasiaDate’s recent series of videos, uploaded on popular social media channels, have received an unusually large number of hits because of their unique and interesting content. These videos have covered content including Gumball 3000, Easter congratulations, International Women’s Day and details of how Slavic women enjoyed winter.

AnastasiaDate’s own exciting set of videos called We Say Privet, which take a different look at East European culture, have also been extremely popular. These videos are posted regularly on the company’s YouTube channel and have been pulling in viewers consistently. The ladies in ‘We Say Privet’ are popular among single men and quite naturally, their videos attract a great deal of attention amongst the social media community.

The YouTube channel of AnastasiaDate is a popular and reliable source of information on the various developments happening on the international dating website. Members as well as those interested in online dating can log on to YouTube and understand what’s been happening on the most popular international dating site in recent times. News about the latest developments are posted by AnastasiaDate through YouTube videos which are regularly updated.

‘We Say Privet’ is an online show sponsored by AnastasiaDate and presented on YouTube. The show is full of quirky fun and information. These videos have quickly established a large fan-base among those who are keen to understand online dating and other aspects associated with it. With new videos added to the series continuously, the website hopes to add even more followers for their videos in the coming months. Single men are extremely curious to know more about ladies from Eastern Europe and their perspective on life and romance.

AnastasiaDate is the most popular international dating service because they are committed to providing members with a highly rewarding online dating experience that transcends geographical and cultural borders. They constantly upgrade their technologies and features to provide members a wonderful and engaging online dating experience.

AnastasiaDate is the leading international dating service that facilitates exciting and romantic companionship with beautiful and interesting women from all over the world. Founded in 1993 by a Russian-American couple, AnastasiaDate now has over 4 million international users and attracts more than 10 million online visits monthly. Additionally, over 1.5 million conversations are exchanged onsite daily. AnastasiaDate is committed to member safety, customer satisfaction and the ongoing pursuit of innovation. Part of the Social Discovery Ventures network, AnastasiaDate is served by offices in Moscow and New York with additional representation in every country it touches. AnastasiaDate provides a high level of customer service to a worldwide clientele. AnastasiaDate users are able to communicate across a variety of top-notch multimedia platforms, including video chat and a mobile app for Android devices available in Google Play.

Focusky Software, a leading online software development company based out of Hong Kong has yet again managed to make presentations not only easy but a joy to create with the help of its free video slideshow maker.

Presentations are an integral aspect of any modern business and therefore, going through the same old routine of monotonous presentations can have a dull impact on one’s reputation. Keeping this in mind and with the desire to constantly innovate, Focusky Software has come up with an innovative and interactive new video slideshow maker available for free of cost that is guaranteed to leave one’s clients in awe and completely captivated, resulting in a positive outcome for business propositions.

It is extremely practical in usage for business purposes and helps incorporate the use of videos in slideshows in order to create crisp and professional looking animations for the presentation. Using this free video slideshow maker has the option to convert the video slideshow into several file formats including HTML, ZIP, APP and even EXE so as to make sure that it can be used on any kind of device to give incredibly captivating presentations.

Focusky boasts of interactive features that enable presentations to zoom, pan and scale making it exciting and professional at the same time. It also possesses security features so as to ensure that the presentations are not tampered with. The presentations created using the free video slideshow maker by Focusky can also be shared across various social media platforms. Embedding such presentations on one’s website with appropriate SEO keywords used can also help Google show these in the search engine results page in Google.

“We are constantly looking to innovate in a way that helps businesses expand and one of the best ways to do so is through effective communication. That is the reason why we intend to incorporate such features as video and animations to help hold a client’s attention, making the presentation interesting”

Jason Chen, President of Focusky.

The developers and the Research team at Focusky Software understand that video and animations can make a presentation far more attractive and help deliver more information as compared to purely images or text combined. Besides, they firmly believe that breaking the monotony and coming up with interesting ways to add life to presentations can help businesses grow immensely.